Patrick Whelan, a Harvard Medical School lecturer who has researched music and the brain, puts some of it down to evolutionary biology. Early mammals relied heavily on hearing to avoid predators, the ...

From its very first note, “Lovin’ You” by Minnie Riperton creates a sonic atmosphere that is light and ethereal. With a melody originally composed as a lullaby for Riperton’s daughter Maya Rudolph, ...

It’s a summer night. The lights drop. Paul Simon steps out, and for a second it doesn’t feel like a regular concert so much as a door cracking open to the years when these songs first became part of ...

This album felt like making my first album, because that’s how nervous I was,” Boy Golden told the crowd at a show in ...

Charles Darwin, the father of modern evolutionary theory, believed that music in human society arose as a result of sexual ...

The Beatles’ beloved collaborator died at 59 in 2006. A new documentary, “That’s the Way God Planned It,” explores what he long kept hidden.

For singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, inspiration for a song can arrive from anywhere at any time. On her new album, Flying With Angels, the song Last Train From Mariupol arrived with news from the war ...

The King of Latin Trap has written a song just for you.

Foo Fighters' Ain’t It the Life was inspired by Dave Grohl listening to Fleetwood Mac while recording, giving the rock track a mellow '70s feel.

Being spiritually curious means I don't follow a rulebook. Instead, these 12 soul-level practices give me a meaning in a way ...